The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2011
Hyuksoo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Sungho Song, Seoul, KR;
Sungmin YE, Seoul, KR;
Seonghwan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Byeongjo Ryoo, Seoul, KR;
Hyuksoo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Sungho Song, Seoul, KR;
Sungmin Ye, Seoul, KR;
Seonghwan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Byeongjo Ryoo, Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A clothes treating apparatus includes a drum configured to accommodate therein an object to be dried, an air suction device configured to form a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an air exhaustion device configured to form a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a condenser disposed to heat air sucked into the drum through the air suction device, an evaporator disposed to cool air exhausted from the drum the air exhaustion device, and a compressor and an expander configured to constitute a heat pump together with the condenser and the evaporator. The method includes a temperature detection step of detecting a temperature change of air passing through the condenser or the air suction device, and a determination step of determining that refrigerant leakage has occurred when a temperature decrease amount measured in the temperature detection step is more than a predetermined level.